The Warrior as a Cultural and Psychological Necessity [ZOOM Webinar]
2025-02-08 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver)
By Dylan Francisco

The world is increasingly at war—literally and metaphorically. To cope, many seek personal methods of gaining peace—through meditation, yoga, time in nature, exercise, even therapy. But these methods are often utilized to escape difficult emotions like fear and anger. Even developing emotional intelligence can be motivated by a desire to think about emotions rather than feel them. Because the world is engulfed by fear and anger, conscientious people are doing everything possible to eliminate them, which is not helping because it just enacts another kind of war. We are caught between the guru and the soldier and paradoxically enough, both must often kill their emotions to complete their mission, which can leave behind a trail of massacred lives in one form or another.

We are suffering from the cultural and psychological absence of the Warrior. Indigenous cultures have always recognized the importance of the Warrior for the human community because the Warrior is experientially trained to honor fear and anger. Without the Warrior we lose what fear and anger can teach us. When we oppose these emotions, we put ourselves in conflict with the psyche itself and no one at war with themselves can live peacefully with others or the earth.

This Saturday Zoom webinar will cover the Warrior as a psychological and cultural necessity from Indigenous and depth psychological perspectives, why fear and anger are integral to psychological wholeness and human community, and what the Warrior can teach us about living at peace with ourselves, others, and the earth.

DYLAN FRANCISCO, PhD, is co-chair and a core faculty member of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. Dylan grounds his teaching in the depth psychology of C. G. Jung, decolonialism, and Mestizo/Mexican/Indigenous traditions that provide a primordial, holistic, and sacred worldview within which to understand the psyche, to embody its wholeness individually, and to live it relationally through honoring Spirit, the ancestors, and the land.

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Online registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, February 7, 2025 at 12:00 pm Mountain Time.

The ZOOM link will be sent out to everyone on February 7, 2024 by 4:00 pm Mountain time.

This webinar will be recorded. Everyone who registered for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

Tending the Garden of the Soul: Entering the Mundus Imaginalis Through Dreams, Nature, and Sandplay [LECTURE]
2025-03-07 19:00 - 21:00
By Shannon Yockey

We live in difficult times and collectively suffer hopelessness, despair, and a fear of the destruction of our species and planet. These devastating archetypal forces threaten our sense of shared humanity and connection to the Anima Mundi (world soul). During such times, it is vital to go to the deep wellspring of the collective unconscious, which brings soul into the world.

In the mundus imaginalis, we encounter figures of light and shadow that mirror what we need for psychic healing. Each time we work with a dream, create a sand scene, or ponder a synchronistic nature visitation, we bring forth unconscious content wanting to be known, which brings balance and wholeness. When we connect to this imaginal realm, our body-soul split is mended, which ripples into the collective situation.

Henry Corbin reveals the imaginal realm in his studies of Islamic Sufism as a world that holds imagination as an absolutely basic function through which its reality and objective is perceived. This idea correlates to Jung’s fidelity to psychic reality—the basis for his creation of The Red Book, his lived imaginal experiences, and the foundation of Jungian theories.

In the Saturday workshop, “Honoring the ‘salt of our experiences’: Exploring Alchemical Imagination through Embodied Practices,” we will explore meaning making through symbolic expression in sandplay, connecting to nature, and active imagination. Through personal experiences of the sacred, we can partner with the psyche in bringing soul into the world. Participants will engage in creativity and active imagination through sandplay, personal reflection, and group sharing.

SHANNON YOCKEY, LCSW, is a Diplomate Jungian analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe and a sandplay teaching member with ISST/STA. She has been in private practice for over thirty years, working with children, teens, and adults. She specializes in early attachment, relational trauma, and anxiety. Shannon has presented nationally and internationally and published essays on healing and transformation through relationships in nature through direct experiences, sandplay, dreams, and active imagination. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Online pre-registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

For those who registered to attend online, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, March 7, 2025 by 12:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who paid for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-Person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Honoring the ‘Salt of Our Experiences’ [WORKSHOP]
2025-03-08 09:00 - 13:30
By Shannon Yockey

We live in difficult times and collectively suffer hopelessness, despair, and a fear of the destruction of our species and planet. These devastating archetypal forces threaten our sense of shared humanity and connection to the Anima Mundi (world soul). During such times, it is vital to go to the deep wellspring of the collective unconscious, which brings soul into the world.

In the mundus imaginalis, we encounter figures of light and shadow that mirror what we need for psychic healing. Each time we work with a dream, create a sand scene, or ponder a synchronistic nature visitation, we bring forth unconscious content wanting to be known, which brings balance and wholeness. When we connect to this imaginal realm, our body-soul split is mended, which ripples into the collective situation.

Henry Corbin reveals the imaginal realm in his studies of Islamic Sufism as a world that holds imagination as an absolutely basic function through which its reality and objective is perceived. This idea correlates to Jung’s fidelity to psychic reality—the basis for his creation of The Red Book, his lived imaginal experiences, and the foundation of Jungian theories.

In this Saturday workshop, “Honoring the ‘salt of our experiences’: Exploring Alchemical Imagination through Embodied Practices,” we will explore meaning making through symbolic expression in sandplay, connecting to nature, and active imagination. Through personal experiences of the sacred, we can partner with the psyche in bringing soul into the world. Participants will engage in creativity and active imagination through sandplay, personal reflection, and group sharing.

SHANNON YOCKEY, LCSW, is a Diplomate Jungian analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe and a sandplay teaching member with ISST/STA. She has been in private practice for over thirty years, working with children, teens, and adults. She specializes in early attachment, relational trauma, and anxiety. Shannon has presented nationally and internationally and published essays on healing and transformation through relationships in nature through direct experiences, sandplay, dreams, and active imagination. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Online pre-registration to attend this workshop ENDED on Friday, March 7, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend will be available at the door. Doors open at 8:30 am on Saturday.

Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Never Not Broken: Alchemical Transformation of the Animal Body in Trauma Resolution [LECTURE]
2025-05-02 19:00 - 21:00
By Lindsey Geiger

In trauma, primal instincts to survive collide with powerful archetypal experiences, setting off seemingly endless cycles of pain. We suffer greatly in our reactive responses to trauma, making it difficult to realize that our animal bodies hold invaluable capacities for mending our soul’s wounds and fractures. As C. G. Jung suggested, alchemy beautifully illustrates the intricate processes of psychic transformation, and it emphasizes the integration of the physical matter of our bodies to bring wholeness.

In the Friday evening lecture, a series of compelling alchemical images will be explored, helpfully illuminating the psychological transformations in the nervous system, the heart work of relational trauma, and the higher aspects of thought and spiritual practice in trauma resolution.

On Saturday, join us for an experiential workshop, “Somatic Alchemy: Unearthing the Soul in the Body,” where we will engage the important dialogue between your body and your inner imagination. We will attune to the language of the body through purposeful movements and exercises designed to untie some trauma knots and enhance resilience. You will learn skills to decipher the felt sense of your body’s helpful guidance, which is communicated in both pleasure and pain. Engaging in the Jungian practice of active imagination, we will seek the small, ignored aspects of our psyches that live in our sensations and impulses. If approached with curiosity and respect, these exiled parts can transform, offering the alchemical gold of integration.

LINDSEY GEIGER is a Jungian Analyst in Evergreen, Colorado. She is a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Colorado and received her MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her work focuses on the integration of soul in anxiety and trauma treatment, religious and spiritual wounding and resolution, and creative recovery.

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Online pre-registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, May 2, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets to receive access to the Video Recording (ONLY) are still available below.

If you registered to attend online, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, May 2, 2025 by 12:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who registers for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Somatic Alchemy: Unearthing the Soul in the Body [WORKSHOP]
2025-05-03 09:00 - 13:30
By Lindsey Geiger

In trauma, primal instincts to survive collide with powerful archetypal experiences, setting off seemingly endless cycles of pain. We suffer greatly in our reactive responses to trauma, making it difficult to realize that our animal bodies hold invaluable capacities for mending our soul’s wounds and fractures. As C. G. Jung suggested, alchemy beautifully illustrates the intricate processes of psychic transformation, and it emphasizes the integration of the physical matter of our bodies to bring wholeness.

In the Friday evening lecture, a series of compelling alchemical images will be explored, helpfully illuminating the psychological transformations in the nervous system, the heart work of relational trauma, and the higher aspects of thought and spiritual practice in trauma resolution.

On Saturday, join us for an experiential workshop, “Somatic Alchemy: Unearthing the Soul in the Body,” where we will engage the important dialogue between your body and your inner imagination. We will attune to the language of the body through purposeful movements and exercises designed to untie some trauma knots and enhance resilience. You will learn skills to decipher the felt sense of your body’s helpful guidance, which is communicated in both pleasure and pain. Engaging in the Jungian practice of active imagination, we will seek the small, ignored aspects of our psyches that live in our sensations and impulses. If approached with curiosity and respect, these exiled parts can transform, offering the alchemical gold of integration.

LINDSEY GEIGER is a Jungian Analyst in Evergreen, Colorado. She is a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Colorado and received her MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her work focuses on the integration of soul in anxiety and trauma treatment, religious and spiritual wounding and resolution, and creative recovery.

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Online pre-registration to attend this program ENDED on Friday, May 2, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 8:30 am on Saturday.

Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Trauma of Exile Through a Jungian Lens [LECTURE]
2025-09-19 19:00 - 21:00
By Lourdes Hernandez

This presentation will discuss how the trauma of political exile splits and shapes the psyche of displaced individuals, making their lives psychologically conflictual and experienced incongruous. The thesis explores how Jungian theory can assist displaced persons in fashioning a new mythic center that grounds the uncentered, culturally diverse self-states that develop from the acculturation experience. It will discuss how Jungian analysis is uniquely suited to working with the exile complex and the phenomenon of Othering through the amplification of a fairy tale, the presenter’s own dreamwork, the process of active imagination, and the resultant transcendent function of the symbol—ultimately bringing meaning to the trauma of exile.

Group discussion and personal applications of these Jungian concepts will be further explored and encouraged in the Saturday workshop.

LOURDES HERNANDEZ (USA) was marked by the traumas of war and political asylum when her family fled Cuba to take refuge in the United States. She holds postgraduate degrees from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Regis University, Hermeneutics, and Counseling. After a period of study in Zurich, Lourdes returned stateside to complete her analytic training with the IRSJA and has a bilingual private practice in Boulder, Colorado. Lourdes is a lifelong musician and visual artist.

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Online pre-registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, September 19, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets to receive access to the Video Recording (ONLY) are still available below.

If you register to attend online via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, September 19, 2025 by Noon (12:00 pm) Mountain Time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Trauma of Exile Through a Jungian Lens [WORKSHOP]
2025-09-20 09:00 - 13:30
By Lourdes Hernandez

The Friday evening presentation will discuss how the trauma of political exile splits and shapes the psyche of displaced individuals, making their lives psychologically conflictual and experienced incongruous. The thesis explores how Jungian theory can assist displaced persons in fashioning a new mythic center that grounds the uncentered, culturally diverse self-states that develop from the acculturation experience. It will discuss how Jungian analysis is uniquely suited to working with the exile complex and the phenomenon of Othering through the amplification of a fairy tale, the presenter’s own dreamwork, the process of active imagination, and the resultant transcendent function of the symbol—ultimately bringing meaning to the trauma of exile.

Group discussion and personal applications of these Jungian concepts will be further explored and encouraged in this Saturday half-day workshop.

LOURDES HERNANDEZ (USA) was marked by the traumas of war and political asylum when her family fled Cuba to take refuge in the United States. She holds postgraduate degrees from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Regis University, Hermeneutics, and Counseling. After a period of study in Zurich, Lourdes returned stateside to complete her analytic training with the IRSJA and has a bilingual private practice in Boulder, Colorado. Lourdes is a lifelong musician and visual artist.

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Online pre-registration to attend this program ENDED on Friday, September 19, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 8:30 am on Saturday.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Writing Our Way Through the Dark: The Creative Uses of Nigredo [LECTURE]
2025-10-17 19:00 - 21:00
By Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson

Nearly a century ago, when Freud and Jung witnessed the rise of fascism in Europe, they turned their keen depth psychological eye to cultural nigredo in works such as Civilization and its Discontents and “Wotan.” Jungians can follow their example by writing our way through today’s social, cultural, and political nigredo. Indeed, darkness is a writer’s friend.

Friday evening’s lecture describes how creative writing practice can thrive in the dark; indeed, it is nourished by the slow, somber, ruminative processes characteristic of nigredo. Jung described the creative process as the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, which is entwined with the artist’s fate. In the darkness of nigredo, the daimon, guiding spirit or genius of creative work can emerge with special poignance and clarity.

“The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with a stubborn fidelity,” says Hillman in The Soul’s Code, and often forces “deviance and oddity upon its keeper.” At a time when political leaders actively repress deviance and oddity, the presence of the daimon empowers Jungians to continue counter-cultural work: in our creative practices, in our professional life, in our communities and in the world.

Saturday’s workshop has one aim: to show how writing in the dark is a way to build an enduring relationship with the daimon, a formidable imaginal ally. It is organized around provocative writing and somatic exercises to help participants follow an archetypal image in their work. The aim is to dislodge a purely intellectual approach to the image and inspire soulful, embodied engagement.

ELIZABETH ÉOWYN NELSON, PhD, a Pacifica Graduate Institute faculty member since 2003, has been a professional writer and editor for four decades. An internationally-known speaker and teacher, Dr. Nelson’s books include Psyche’s Knife, The Art of Inquiry, coauthored with Joseph Coppin, and The Art of Jungian Couple Therapy, coauthored with Anthony Delmedico. In her consulting practice, she embodies depth psychological and imaginal practices to coach individual authors across a variety of genres and styles. www.elizabethnelson-phd.com.

Get Tickets to Register

Online registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets to receive access to the Video Recording (ONLY) are still available below.

If you registered to attend online via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, October 17, 2025 around Noon (12:00 pm) Mountain Time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registered will receive access to the video recording one week after the event.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

Open Google Map

Writing Our Way Through the Dark: The Creative Uses of Nigredo [WORKSHOP]
2025-10-18 09:00 - 13:30
By Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson

Nearly a century ago, when Freud and Jung witnessed the rise of fascism in Europe, they turned their keen depth psychological eye to cultural nigredo in works such as Civilization and its Discontents and “Wotan.” Jungians can follow their example by writing our way through today’s social, cultural, and political nigredo. Indeed, darkness is a writer’s friend.

Friday evening’s lecture describes how creative writing practice can thrive in the dark; indeed, it is nourished by the slow, somber, ruminative processes characteristic of nigredo. Jung described the creative process as the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, which is entwined with the artist’s fate. In the darkness of nigredo, the daimon, guiding spirit or genius of creative work can emerge with special poignance and clarity.

“The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with a stubborn fidelity,” says Hillman in The Soul’s Code, and often forces “deviance and oddity upon its keeper.” At a time when political leaders actively repress deviance and oddity, the presence of the daimon empowers Jungians to continue counter-cultural work: in our creative practices, in our professional life, in our communities and in the world.

Saturday’s workshop has one aim: to show how writing in the dark is a way to build an enduring relationship with the daimon, a formidable imaginal ally. It is organized around provocative writing and somatic exercises to help participants follow an archetypal image in their work. The aim is to dislodge a purely intellectual approach to the image and inspire soulful, embodied engagement.

ELIZABETH ÉOWYN NELSON, PhD, a Pacifica Graduate Institute faculty member since 2003, has been a professional writer and editor for four decades. An internationally-known speaker and teacher, Dr. Nelson’s books include Psyche’s Knife, The Art of Inquiry, coauthored with Joseph Coppin, and The Art of Jungian Couple Therapy, coauthored with Anthony Delmedico. In her consulting practice, she embodies depth psychological and imaginal practices to coach individual authors across a variety of genres and styles. www.elizabethnelson-phd.com.

Get Tickets to Register

Online registration to attend this program ENDED on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 8:30 am on Saturday.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Working Below the Chaotic Surface [POLITICAL PANEL]
2025-11-14 19:00 - 21:00
Archetypal Dimensions in the Midst of Collective Flooding With Barry Williams, Larry Rayburn, & Marilyn Mathews

In these turbulent times we are flooded with information and opinion about our political condition. Editorials, blogs, and professional pundits reflect our desperate need to know, not just what is going on, but what it means. While understandable, this could also be a defense against the truly psychological examination of our disruptions. We—Barry Williams, Marilyn Mathews, and Larry Rayburn—will offer an exploration of the archetypal contours below the surface as we mark the one-year anniversary of the presidential election.

Given the speed with which events are currently erupting, it is impossible to know what elements will be in the foreground this coming November. However, with what Jung called “careful consideration,” we will attend to the archetypal images and motifs that have emerged and are emergent in the moment. Certainly, grief, sacrifice and the raw dimensions of archetypal reality will, by definition, be pertinent, even if “these times” defy attempts at sense-making. To this task we hope to bring an analytic attitude—noting what is present in the field of our collective chaos, looking for the small voices that may be stirring, those that might bring some sanity or meaning. We are more interested in asking how more than why. How do we understand our moment, and how do we enter into dialogue about such volatile topics, while acknowledging the trauma, grief, and despair that seem to be our constant companions in these times.

As we reflect on past political panels, there always seems to be much left unsaid and unaddressed in the wake of these Friday evening programs. This year, in response, we will also host a discussion the following Saturday morning from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm for those of you who would like to join us to explore the issues raised on Friday evening.

BARRY WILLIAMS, M.DIV., PSYD, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Taos, NM and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe. For twenty-five years, together with his wife and late son, he has been an initiated Mara’akame in the traditional healing path of the Huichol/Wixarika people of the Sierra of central Mexico. Dr. Williams’ particular interests are in dreams, healing, shamanism and depth psychology, and the archetype of sacrifice.

LARRY RAYBURN, MA, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe where he is the outgoing (2025) president. He is also a senior training analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Larry is interested in male psychology, particularly that of boys and the father, and in the theories of play and psychic energy. He has presented and taught on the alchemical opus, contra naturam, or work against nature, as expressed in the flow and counter-flow of human life, the natural world, and clinical practice.

MARILYN MATTHEWS, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe. A former president of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, she also has many years of experience on Exam Committees in the IRSJA. Her interest in women’s voices and silences has led to a number of published papers on those topics. Now what holds her attention is the changing pattern of ethics during the current societal and cultural upheaval.

Get Tickets to Register

Online registration to attend this program live ENDED on Friday, November 14, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets to receive access to the Video Recording (ONLY) are still available below.

If you register to attend online via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, November 14, 2025 at Noon (12:00 pm) Mountain Time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

Open Google Map

Working Below the Chaotic Surface [DISCUSSION]
2025-11-15 10:00 - 13:00
Archetypal Dimensions in the Midst of Collective Flooding, With Panel: Barry Williams, Larry Rayburn, & Marilyn Mathews

In these turbulent times we are flooded with information and opinion about our political condition. Editorials, blogs, and professional pundits reflect our desperate need to know, not just what is going on, but what it means. While understandable, this could also be a defense against the truly psychological examination of our disruptions. On Friday evening, we—Barry Williams, Marilyn Mathews, and Larry Rayburn—will offer an exploration of the archetypal contours below the surface as we mark the one-year anniversary of the presidential election.

Given the speed with which events are currently erupting, it is impossible to know what elements will be in the foreground this coming November. However, with what Jung called “careful consideration,” we will attend to the archetypal images and motifs that have emerged and are emergent in the moment. Certainly, grief, sacrifice and the raw dimensions of archetypal reality will, by definition, be pertinent, even if “these times” defy attempts at sense-making. To this task we hope to bring an analytic attitude—noting what is present in the field of our collective chaos, looking for the small voices that may be stirring, those that might bring some sanity or meaning. We are more interested in asking how more than why. How do we understand our moment, and how do we enter into dialogue about such volatile topics, while acknowledging the trauma, grief, and despair that seem to be our constant companions in these times.

As we reflect on past political panels, there always seems to be much left unsaid and unaddressed in the wake of these Friday evening programs. This year, in response, we will also host a discussion the following Saturday morning from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm for those of you who would like to join us to explore the issues raised on Friday evening.

BARRY WILLIAMS, M.DIV., PSYD, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Taos, NM and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe. For twenty-five years, together with his wife and late son, he has been an initiated Mara’akame in the traditional healing path of the Huichol/Wixarika people of the Sierra of central Mexico. Dr. Williams’ particular interests are in dreams, healing, shamanism and depth psychology, and the archetype of sacrifice.

LARRY RAYBURN, MA, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe where he is the outgoing (2025) president. He is also a senior training analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Larry is interested in male psychology, particularly that of boys and the father, and in the theories of play and psychic energy. He has presented and taught on the alchemical opus, contra naturam, or work against nature, as expressed in the flow and counter-flow of human life, the natural world, and clinical practice.

MARILYN MATTHEWS, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe. A former president of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, she also has many years of experience on Exam Committees in the IRSJA. Her interest in women’s voices and silences has led to a number of published papers on those topics. Now what holds her attention is the changing pattern of ethics during the current societal and cultural upheaval.

Get Tickets to Register

Online registration to attend this program ENDED on Friday, November 14, 2025 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. Tickets to attend in-person will be available at the door, payable by cash or check. Doors open at 9:30 am on Saturday morning.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

Open Google Map

The Synchronicity of the Two Red Books [WEBINAR]
2026-01-17 10:00 - 13:00
Jung, Tolkein, and the Imaginal Realm

by Becca Tarnas

Beginning in the years leading up to the Great War, both C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imaginal experiences. Jung recorded these fantasies in a large red manuscript that he named Liber Novus, referred to simply as The Red Book. For Tolkien, this imaginal journey revealed to him the world of Middle-earth, whose stories and myths eventually led to the writing of The Lord of the Rings, a book he named within its own imaginal history The Red Book of Westmarch. This workshop explores the many synchronistic parallels between Jung’s and Tolkien’s Red Books: the style and content of their works of art, the narrative descriptions and scenes in their texts, the nature of their visions and dreams, and an underlying similarity in world view that emerged from their experiences. The two men seem to have been simultaneously treading parallel paths through the imaginal realm.

This webinar will consist of an opening lecture on the parallels between Jung’s and Tolkien’s Red Books, followed by a communal dialogue exploring the meaning of certain key visions and fantasies in C.G. Jung’s Red Book. Participants can expect to engage a close reading of parts of the text and a collective exploration of the illustrations that illuminate Jung’s Liber Novus.

BECCA TARNAS, PHD, is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her research interests include depth psychology, archetypal studies, literature, philosophy, and the ecological imagination. Becca is an editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology and author of the book Journey to the Imaginal Realm. She is currently researching and writing a biography of Stanislav Grof, a co-founder of transpersonal psychology.

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Registration to attend this program LIVE ended on Friday, January 16, 2026 at 12:00 pm Mountain Time. You can still purchase a ticket for access to the Video recording until Friday, January 23, 2026.

The ZOOM link will be sent out to everyone who registered on Friday, January 16, 2025 by 4:00 pm Mountain Time.

This webinar will be video recorded. Everyone who registered will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE webinar via ZOOM to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

Hillman and Soul-Making in Troubled Times [WEBINAR]
2026-02-21 10:00 - 13:00
by Rebecca & Dennis Pottenger

In our troubled times we come together to follow James Hillman’s operations of soul-making to engage with aspects of soul that seek expression in the world through us.

Both Hillman and Jung stressed the need to tend to the world we live in. Jung wrote that the project of individuation must engage the moral challenge of differentiating from unconscious influences toward bringing something of value into the world. He also observed that what we do not face within ourselves, we face in the world as fate. Civilization is seeing a global expansion of authoritarianism, and we are meeting the collective shadow as fate in dreadful social, political, and environmental consequences.

Mythologist Michael Meade described these times as a slow apocalypse. Following the original meaning of apocalypse, what shadow material is being revealed in these times and what is our task in meeting it?

In A Blue Fire, Hillman wrote “Culture [is] a mythic enterprise” and the ego must be resilient enough to engage in outer life and its uncertainties: Following fear as a path into the imaginal possibilities at work in the depths of culture and soul so that we might “orient life by their compass.”

During this webinar, we will take an image-rich, PowerPoint discussion of Hillman’s processes of soul-making and the telling of a mythic tale into active imagination to connect with and allow ourselves to feel and be moved by archetypal, transpersonal, and ensouled energies seeking expression in our lives, returning us to hope, vitality, wisdom, and a sense of community.

REBECCA AND DENNIS POTTENGER are Jungian-oriented psychotherapists in Fresno, CA. Rebecca leads women’s retreats premised on creative engagement with Hillman’s theory and edits depth-psychological works. Dennis authored Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo and has several forthcoming books applying Jungian and Hillmanian theory to racism, white supremacy, and authoritarianism. They co-led a monthly Jungian learning circle from 2011-2018 and have presented at the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies and Jung Associations of Central Ohio and Pheonix.

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Registration for this program ended on Friday, February 20, 2026 at 12:00 pm Mountain Time.

The ZOOM link will be sent out to everyone who registered on Friday, February 20, 2026 after registration closes and by 4:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week later.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture via ZOOM to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

Active Imagination With Music [LECTURE]
2026-03-13 19:00 - 21:00
by Rich Ryan

Music is the most direct and mysterious way of conveying and evoking feeling. It is a way of connecting one consciousness to another. I think the nearest thing to telepathy is making music together. –Oliver Sacks

Carl Jung discovered the process he later named Active Imagination during his “encounter with his unconscious.” This journey led him to a 16-year project that ultimately culminated in the creation of The Red Book. Active Imagination has been elaborated upon and utilized through writing, painting, drawing, dancing, and sandplay. However, the application of Active Imagination through music has not been extensively explored or documented.

Music offers a rich projective field for engaging with the unconscious and the process of individuation. It functions as an archetypal and instinctive phenomenon, operating autonomously within the psyche.

The Friday evening program will demonstrate that music serves as a portal to the unconscious and acts as an archetypal force for accessing the collective unconscious. I invite you to explore this idea with me and share a musical experience through Jung’s method of Active Imagination by listening to music together.

In the Saturday workshop, we will delve deeper into the Active Imagination process using several short, selected pieces of music. Materials will be available for you to respond to your experiences through drawing and writing, and one particular piece of music will serve as a prompt for movement, dance, or spontaneous expression.

RICH RYAN, PhD LCSW trained at the Jung Institute of Los Angeles where he is a member analyst. He is also a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts and the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, where he is the incoming (2025) president and teaches in the Analyst Training Program. Rich is licensed in New Mexico and California and currently practices in Santa Fe and California. He is available for supervision, consultation, and analysis in person or by telehealth.

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ONLINE registration to attend this program live (in person or online) ENDED on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. In-person tickets will be available at the door, doors open at 6:30 pm Mountain Time.

Tickets to receive access to the video recording after the event are still available below.

If you registered to attend online via ZOOM, The ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 12:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registered will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — either in person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Active Imagination With Music [WORKSHOP]
2026-03-14 09:00 - 13:30
by Rich Ryan

Music is the most direct and mysterious way of conveying and evoking feeling. It is a way of connecting one consciousness to another. I think the nearest thing to telepathy is making music together. –Oliver Sacks

Carl Jung discovered the process he later named Active Imagination during his “encounter with his unconscious.” This journey led him to a 16-year project that ultimately culminated in the creation of The Red Book. Active Imagination has been elaborated upon and utilized through writing, painting, drawing, dancing, and sandplay. However, the application of Active Imagination through music has not been extensively explored or documented.

Music offers a rich projective field for engaging with the unconscious and the process of individuation. It functions as an archetypal and instinctive phenomenon, operating autonomously within the psyche.

The Friday evening program will demonstrate that music serves as a portal to the unconscious and acts as an archetypal force for accessing the collective unconscious. I invite you to explore this idea with me and share a musical experience through Jung’s method of Active Imagination by listening to music together.

In the Saturday workshop, we will delve deeper into the Active Imagination process using several short, selected pieces of music. Materials will be available for you to respond to your experiences through drawing and writing, and one particular piece of music will serve as a prompt for movement, dance, or spontaneous expression.

RICH RYAN, PhD LCSW trained at the Jung Institute of Los Angeles where he is a member analyst. He is also a member of the Interregional Society of Jungian Analysts and the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, where he is the incoming (2025) president and teaches in the Analyst Training Program. Rich is licensed in New Mexico and California and currently practices in Santa Fe and California. He is available for supervision, consultation, and analysis in person or by telehealth.

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ONLINE REGISTRATION to attend this program ENDED on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. In-person tickets will be available at the door, doors open on Saturday at 8:30 am Mountain Time.

This event is in-person ONLY.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Archetype of the Kore-Virgin in the Life of Georgia O'Keeffe [LECTURE]
2026-04-10 19:00 - 21:00
by Sarah Hoagland

What does it mean for a woman to be a Virgin-spiritually and psychologically-one-unto herself?

How is creative process linked to individuation, allowing the I-thou relationship to unfold and serve as a mirror to one’s emerging authentic personality? Why might women require solitude and a “Room of One’s Own” in order to strip away adaptations that arise from cultural conditioning that would otherwise eclipse their individuation process? In what ways does following the still small voice of the psyche—connecting to one’s nature, bio rhythms and creative impulses—open a psychic space of generativity and flow that allows for the emergence of a living feminine soul in the world?

For a woman’s individuation to unfold, the archetypal patterns of the Kore arise as “inner necessity.” Georgia O’Keeffe eschewed the cultural conditioning of her times by following the still small voice of her creative inspirations to become who she was. In Jung’s essay, “The Psychological Aspects of the Kore” (CW9i para 306), Jung suggests that the Kore archetype could be a Supraordinate personality or Self figure for women.

The Friday evening lecture will examine these ideas and show how O’Keeffe arrived at creating her own painting style. We will consider her initial intent of creating forms that she felt were particular to the psyche of a woman, a definition she quickly abandoned in order not to be seen exclusively as a woman or woman’s painter. We will consider O’Keeffe’s own words and the evolution of her experimental charcoal drawings of 1915 in her effort to paint as a “Virgin”—spiritually and psychologically—“one-unto-herself.”

In Saturday’s workshop, “The Kore Archetype in Women’s Individuation and Creative Process,” we will explore what it means for a woman to become “one-unto-herself” with O’Keeffe’s example in mind. Through writing prompts for reflection and sharing together, we will reflect on the ways the values of the Kore Archetype relate to your own lives, and personal myth. We will view in more depth O’Keeffe’s paintings and explore the nature of creative process and identity development. We will ground these experiences in the body and include time for free play with line, color and form.

SARAH HOAGLAND, MA, LPC is a certified Jungian Analyst and has been in private practice in Portland, Oregon since 2004. She is a member of the PNSJA (Pacific NW Society of Jungian Analysts) and received her Diploma from the CG Jung Institute/Zurich in 2021. She has a MA in Pastoral Counseling and is a certified Spiritual Director. She is also a certified Marion Woodman Leadership trainer and has a special interest in exploring creative process and women’s individuation. She is a long-time Yoga practitioner and emphasizes the mind/body connection and the somatic unconscious in her clinical practice. She uses a variety of expressive arts in her work with clients.

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Online registration to attend this program LIVE ENDED on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time (MT). The Video-only option remains available until 9:00 am (MT) Friday, April 17, 2026.

You can still attend tonight’s lecture in person by paying at the door with cash or check. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

If you registered to attend online via ZOOM, The ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, April 10, 2026 around 12:00 pm Mountain time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registered will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — either in person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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The Kore Archetype in Women’s Individuation and Creative Process [WORKSHOP]
2026-04-11 09:00 - 13:30
by Sarah Hoagland

What does it mean for a woman to be a Virgin-spiritually and psychologically-one-unto herself?

How is creative process linked to individuation, allowing the I-thou relationship to unfold and serve as a mirror to one’s emerging authentic personality? Why might women require solitude and a “Room of One’s Own” in order to strip away adaptations that arise from cultural conditioning that would otherwise eclipse their individuation process? In what ways does following the still small voice of the psyche—connecting to one’s nature, bio rhythms and creative impulses—open a psychic space of generativity and flow that allows for the emergence of a living feminine soul in the world?

For a woman’s individuation to unfold, the archetypal patterns of the Kore arise as “inner necessity.” Georgia O’Keeffe eschewed the cultural conditioning of her times by following the still small voice of her creative inspirations to become who she was. In Jung’s essay, “The Psychological Aspects of the Kore” (CW9i para 306), Jung suggests that the Kore archetype could be a Supraordinate personality or Self figure for women.

The Friday evening lecture will examine these ideas and show how O’Keeffe arrived at creating her own painting style. We will consider her initial intent of creating forms that she felt were particular to the psyche of a woman, a definition she quickly abandoned in order not to be seen exclusively as a woman or woman’s painter. We will consider O’Keeffe’s own words and the evolution of her experimental charcoal drawings of 1915 in her effort to paint as a “Virgin”—spiritually and psychologically—“one-unto-herself.”

In Saturday’s workshop, “The Kore Archetype in Women’s Individuation and Creative Process,” we will explore what it means for a woman to become “one-unto-herself” with O’Keeffe’s example in mind. Through writing prompts for reflection and sharing together, we will reflect on the ways the values of the Kore Archetype relate to your own lives, and personal myth. We will view in more depth O’Keeffe’s paintings and explore the nature of creative process and identity development. We will ground these experiences in the body and include time for free play with line, color and form.

SARAH HOAGLAND, MA, LPC is a certified Jungian Analyst and has been in private practice in Portland, Oregon since 2004. She is a member of the PNSJA (Pacific NW Society of Jungian Analysts) and received her Diploma from the CG Jung Institute/Zurich in 2021. She has a MA in Pastoral Counseling and is a certified Spiritual Director. She is also a certified Marion Woodman Leadership trainer and has a special interest in exploring creative process and women’s individuation. She is a long-time Yoga practitioner and emphasizes the mind/body connection and the somatic unconscious in her clinical practice. She uses a variety of expressive arts in her work with clients.

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Online registration ENDED on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time. You can still attend by paying at the door on Saturday morning with cash or check. Doors open at 8:30 am.

This workshop is in-person ONLY

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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ANCIENT GREEK MYSTERY RITES AND THE ETHICS OF INDIVIDUATION [LECTURE]
2026-09-18 19:00 - 21:00
By FRANCES HATFIELD

Χαίρε παθών τό πάθημα τό δ̕ ο̕ύπω προσθ̕ ̕επεπόνθειςΘεός ̕εγένου ̕ε̕ξ ̕ανθρώπου έ̕ριϕος ̕ες γάλα έ̕πετες

Greetings, you who have suffered the Suffering, like you never did before. Out of a mortal, you have become a god.A kid, you fell into milk.

This text is an example of many found inscribed on gold leaves and placed in the hands or mouths of the dead who were Bacchic or Orphic initiates. In this presentation we will explore what is known about the ancient Greek mysteries, including group ritual practices and also initiation rituals of a voluntary, secret, and personal character that aimed at personal transformation through a transcendent experience of the sacred.

For over 2,000 years, these rites promised to teach initiates that death was not a curse, but a blessing. We will explore the relevance of the mysteries for understanding our own processes of initiation and individuation, in which we approach functional immortality by means of our conscious suffering, experiences of ecstasy, and personal encounter with the Divine. The goals of initiation differ from the goals of other kinds of psychotherapy, posing different ethical implications. Understanding the symbols and patterns of initiation can illuminate the individuation journey, and enlighten, enliven and deepen analytic work.

In Saturday’s workshop, we will discover the Egyptian roots of the initiation rites and the symbols common to both. We will then delve into the rich visual symbols in the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii. Finally, we will explore how these rites resonate with our own mysteries of individuation. We will also explore the clinician’s ethical considerations involved in this kind of in-depth work.

FRANCES HATFIELD, PH.D, MFT, is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, with a practice in Santa Fe. She was poetry editor of Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche from 2018 to 2023, and is the author of a book of poems, Rudiments of Flight (Wings Press, 2013). Dr. Hatfield is currently writing a book about the archetype of Dionysus and the Quantum Age. Correspondence: franceshatfield@baymoon.com

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Select one of the ticket options below. Online pre-registration to attend this program live ends on Friday, September 18, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.

If you register to attend online via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, September 18, 2026 by Noon (12:00 pm) Mountain Time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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ANCIENT GREEK MYSTERY RITES AND THE ETHICS OF INDIVIDUATION [WORKSHOP]
2026-09-19 09:00 - 13:30
By FRANCES HATFIELD

Χαίρε παθών τό πάθημα τό δ̕ ο̕ύπω προσθ̕ ̕επεπόνθειςΘεός ̕εγένου ̕ε̕ξ ̕ανθρώπου έ̕ριϕος ̕ες γάλα έ̕πετες

Greetings, you who have suffered the Suffering, like you never did before. Out of a mortal, you have become a god.A kid, you fell into milk.

This text is an example of many found inscribed on gold leaves and placed in the hands or mouths of the dead who were Bacchic or Orphic initiates. In this presentation we will explore what is known about the ancient Greek mysteries, including group ritual practices and also initiation rituals of a voluntary, secret, and personal character that aimed at personal transformation through a transcendent experience of the sacred.

For over 2,000 years, these rites promised to teach initiates that death was not a curse, but a blessing. We will explore the relevance of the mysteries for understanding our own processes of initiation and individuation, in which we approach functional immortality by means of our conscious suffering, experiences of ecstasy, and personal encounter with the Divine. The goals of initiation differ from the goals of other kinds of psychotherapy, posing different ethical implications. Understanding the symbols and patterns of initiation can illuminate the individuation journey, and enlighten, enliven and deepen analytic work.

In Saturday’s workshop, we will discover the Egyptian roots of the initiation rites and the symbols common to both. We will then delve into the rich visual symbols in the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii. Finally, we will explore how these rites resonate with our own mysteries of individuation. We will also explore the clinician’s ethical considerations involved in this kind of in-depth work.

FRANCES HATFIELD, PH.D, MFT, is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, with a practice in Santa Fe. She was poetry editor of Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche from 2018 to 2023, and is the author of a book of poems, Rudiments of Flight (Wings Press, 2013). Dr. Hatfield is currently writing a book about the archetype of Dionysus and the Quantum Age. Correspondence: franceshatfield@baymoon.com

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Select one of the ticket options below. Online pre-registration to attend this program live ends on Friday, September 18, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Being With the Body in Depth Psychology: Trauma and Its Transformation in the Unspoken Realm [LECTURE]
2026-10-16 19:00 - 21:00
By BARBARA HOLIFIELD

The body is a portal to the numinous dimensions of the soul’s life—to healing and wholeness that goes far beyond just the relief of traumatic symptoms, leading to a greater access to feelings and a renewed sense of soulful aliveness.

Jungian Analysis and Depth Psychology turn toward the deepest currents of the soul, where dreams and life experiences take on cohesive wisdom and unfold in ways that orient and guide the individual. The ancestors knew this—shamans, healers, medicine people, and spiritual teachers looked to dreams, visions, and synchronicities to guide the individual. They knew that these often spoke not just to the individual but were messages that also offered guidance to the community. This realm Jung called “the Spirit of the Depths.” Here one can re-connect with oneself and our collective body—consciously–– rather than perpetuating the unconscious group-think that is characteristic of “the Spirit of the Times.”

Much of the current research in trauma studies and neuroscience points to the primary significance of the body in accessing and working through developmental wounds that constellate complex trauma. This presentation will explore how the body remembers the affective reverberations of trauma, not in conceptual form, but more like a musical phrase; an affective pattern that gets relived and repeated. To experience the body in Depth Psychotherapy is to enter the non-conceptual world, where meaning arises from direct experience, and the nonverbal dimension of the archetype is felt.

In Saturday’s workshop, we will further this exploration through experiential practices, including Authentic Movement, to discover how the mythopoetic reality revealed in Depth Psychotherapeutic process weaves the experience of the body into a tapestry of personal meaning, facilitating deep transformation.

BARBARA HOLIFIELD, MSW, SEP, is a San Francisco Jungian Analyst who recognizes the body as an intrinsic aspect of psyche. She is a former professor of Somatic Psychology at CIIS and has decades of experience with Somatic Experiencing and Authentic Movement. Whether working with trauma or the nonverbal dimension of the numinous, she incorporates the bodily felt dimension of experience into Jungian work. Her published works include a new book, Being with the Body in Depth Psychotherapy: Development, Trauma, and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm.

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Select one of the ticket options below. Online pre-registration to attend this program live ends on Friday, October 16, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.

If you register to attend online via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, October 16, 2026 by Noon (12:00 pm) Mountain Time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Being With the Body in Depth Psychology: Trauma and Its Transformation in the Unspoken Realm [WORKSHOP]
2026-10-17 09:00 - 13:30
By BARBARA HOLIFIELD

The body is a portal to the numinous dimensions of the soul’s life—to healing and wholeness that goes far beyond just the relief of traumatic symptoms, leading to a greater access to feelings and a renewed sense of soulful aliveness.

Jungian Analysis and Depth Psychology turn toward the deepest currents of the soul, where dreams and life experiences take on cohesive wisdom and unfold in ways that orient and guide the individual. The ancestors knew this—shamans, healers, medicine people, and spiritual teachers looked to dreams, visions, and synchronicities to guide the individual. They knew that these often spoke not just to the individual but were messages that also offered guidance to the community. This realm Jung called “the Spirit of the Depths.” Here one can re-connect with oneself and our collective body—consciously–– rather than perpetuating the unconscious group-think that is characteristic of “the Spirit of the Times.”

Much of the current research in trauma studies and neuroscience points to the primary significance of the body in accessing and working through developmental wounds that constellate complex trauma. This presentation will explore how the body remembers the affective reverberations of trauma, not in conceptual form, but more like a musical phrase; an affective pattern that gets relived and repeated. To experience the body in Depth Psychotherapy is to enter the non-conceptual world, where meaning arises from direct experience, and the nonverbal dimension of the archetype is felt.

In Saturday’s workshop, we will further this exploration through experiential practices, including Authentic Movement, to discover how the mythopoetic reality revealed in Depth Psychotherapeutic process weaves the experience of the body into a tapestry of personal meaning, facilitating deep transformation.

BARBARA HOLIFIELD, MSW, SEP, is a San Francisco Jungian Analyst who recognizes the body as an intrinsic aspect of psyche. She is a former professor of Somatic Psychology at CIIS and has decades of experience with Somatic Experiencing and Authentic Movement. Whether working with trauma or the nonverbal dimension of the numinous, she incorporates the bodily felt dimension of experience into Jungian work. Her published works include a new book, Being with the Body in Depth Psychotherapy: Development, Trauma, and Transformation in the Unspoken Realm.

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Select one of the ticket options below. Online pre-registration to attend this program ends on Friday, October 16, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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Psychologizing in the Age of Corruption [POLITICAL PANEL]
2026-11-13 19:00 - 21:00
By BARRY WILLIAMS, LARRY RAYBURN, & MARILYN MATTHEWS

Over the last year we have struggled to remain consciously engaged in a discussion of what Jung called “these times.” We have entertained the complexes, cultural and personal, at work and the inexorable trend toward corruption amidst the barrage of words and images meant to demand we submit to an ever-narrowing world view.

While the center of our national stage is occupied by one character, we have attempted to cast our net wider and deeper, looking for what our era has constellated. We have explored the tyranny and threat to women and the feminine, the consequences for Nature and the human community, and for individual meaning amidst a flood of shadow-driven emotions, personal animus, not to mention our normal human tendency toward dissociation and denial.

We have continued to use our imaginal and analytic tools on the underlying dynamism of the psyche—of the shadow, the mythic representations of Mercurius, as well as attacks on linking, both within and without. Additionally, we have wondered about the predominance of left brain reasoning, at the cost of right-brain feeling, to address our current crises.

Amidst it all we contend with our unsettling feelings of rage and hopelessness while holding the possibility for change. What, we ask, is the fate of love and eros in such a time?Depth Psychology, emphasizing the symbolic and imaginal, engages the underlayment of our cultural and political life. We will again each offer a brief topic salient to our situation. These presentations will be followed by an inter-panel discussion and time for questions and comments from the audience. We hope you will join us.

BARRY WILLIAMS, M.DIV., PSYD, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Taos, NM and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe. For twenty-five years, together with his wife and late son, he has been an initiated Mara’akame in the traditional healing path of the Huichol/Wixarika people of the Sierra of central Mexico. Dr. Williams’ particular interests are in dreams, healing, shamanism and depth psychology, and the archetype of sacrifice.

LARRY RAYBURN, MA, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe where he is the outgoing (2025) president. He is also a senior training analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Larry is interested in male psychology, particularly that of boys and the father, and in the theories of play and psychic energy. He has presented and taught on the alchemical opus, contra naturam, or work against nature, as expressed in the flow and counter-flow of human life, the natural world, and clinical practice.

MARILYN MATTHEWS, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe. A former president of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, she also has many years of experience on Exam Committees in the IRSJA. Her interest in women’s voices and silences has led to a number of published papers on those topics. Now what holds her attention is the changing pattern of ethics during the current societal and cultural upheaval.

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Select one of the ticket options below. Online pre-registration to attend this program live ends on Friday, November 13, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.

If you register to attend online via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, November 13, 2026 by Noon (12:00 pm) Mountain Time.

This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week after.

**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).

In-person Location

Santa Fe Friends Meeting Hall

505 Camino De Los MarquezSanta Fe, NM

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